Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything: Together across the Wall

We may be divided by lines on the map, but where are those divisions when we turn away from the map and towards the world?

We’ll be talking about the foreign and the indigenous, and how views of these change as you shift from in- to out-groups.

The discussion will be in Thai. There is no admission fee for the event.

About the speakers

Hathairat Phaholtap was born in Nong Bua Lamphu but worked for many years as a political journalist at the Thai PBS head office in Bangkok. Now, though, she has come back to her roots in the northeast of the country to work as editor of The Isaan Record, a groundbreaking publication that specializes in in-depth reporting of political, social, and cultural issues that affect Isaan. The publication focuses especially on youth movements and local opposition to government policy, pushing the reader to question the relationship between Thailand’s regions and its central state.

Panis Phosriwungchai is originally from Khon Kaen and is now editor of The101.World. Panis is interested in social problems and modern Isaan music. She is also a passionate traveler and interviewer, and these threads are woven into her non-fiction writing.

Janejira Sereeyotin is an independent writer, guest lecturer, and German and English translator and interpreter. Janejira has translated more than sixty books, including ‘Measuring the World’, ‘Olga’, ‘The Piano Teacher’, and ‘Why the Germans Do it Better’.

The 2011 publication of ‘Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything’ marked the end of Daniela Krien’s journey from her background in Leipzig to the centre of the German literary world. Indeed, the novel’s popularity and high regard is such that it has now been translated into fifteen different languages.
‘Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything’ is set against the run-up to German reunification in the summer of 1990. The books tells the story of seventeen-year-old Maria, who likes to read, and her life in a village in East Germany. Her interior world is also a vault of secrets sealed off from the society around her and open only to us, the readers.

‘Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything’
Author: Daniela Krien
Translator: Piyakal Sinprasert
Publisher: Library House
ISBN: 9786168123850

The translation of this work was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut.

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